Word: mellows
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Mittleman’s crazy guy turned out to be Beck, and the phenomenal success of Mellow Gold and Odelay spurred record companies to court her next catch aggressively. After being wined and dined by more than a dozen labels, Lord decided to sign with The Work Group, a Sony label that had released Fiona Apple’s Tidal and several albums from Jamiroquai. The Mary Lou Lord with little more to her name than a guitar and a futon was no more—she had become a big-league recording artist with a six-figure advance...
...overarching presence of the lake sets the rhythm of the human year. The way McGahern describes the changing lights, the colors of the foliage, the life of the animals and the demands of planting and harvest is intuition distilled to intensity—a mellow intensity, so to speak. His careful attention to the way people more in their environment is evident even in the brief appearance of a London visitor: “He washed, walked around the lake, read a newspaper. The way he crackled the pages as he read created a space around the rocking chair...
...person, Breece comes across as more mellow than one might expect from reading his list of activities. He says friends and the occasional leisure activity help him maintain this outlook. “I like to get out of Harvard Square and chill with my friends or read non-school-related things like a newspaper or book review,” he says...
Nowhere to go from there but mellow, they decelerated into “Slow Ride” (the title cut from the new album) which Frankie played with a personal and meditative air, descending from the bandstand and playing among the tables, each time with a slightly different nuance. After shaking everyone’s hand with a hardy and humble “Nice to meet you, I’m Frankie V,” he retook center stage and the band gelled with their keystone back in place, listening to the tune one last time...
...deviation above the average should earn a student a B-plus. Only those truly exceptional students—those rare double-“sigmas”—should be awarded an A-minus. Put the A out of reach, and most of the sigma fiends will mellow out. Harvard students have spent their whole lives being perfect. If there is anything this school should teach them, it’s that they...